Signals: Mysterious Objects - 25 Years of Hubert Bals Fund
Overview of films
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Ilya Khrzhanovsky | 126' | Russia | None
You won’t have seen Russia like this very often. Three characters meet in a bar and talk about their lives. The stories are both banal… -
Ana y los otros
Celina Murga | 80' | Argentina | None
A stunning Camila Toker plays a young woman who returns to her birthplace for the first time in years and seeks in vain the places,… -
The Blue Eyes of Yonta
Flora Gomes | 95' | Guinea-Bissau | None
In Guinea-Bissau, where the euphoria surrounding independence is gradually ebbing away, to be replaced by disappointment, a tragicomic love story unfo -
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Elia Suleiman | 88' | Israel | None
Palestinian filmmaker Suleiman returns to Israel after years spent living abroad. We meet his family and friends in a series of often ironic scenes an -
Few of Us
Sharunas Bartas | 105' | France | None
The originally nomadic people the Tofalars live in a remote corner of Siberia. Now housed in concrete homes, they struggle to keep up traditions and… -
The Forsaken Land
Vimukthi Jayasundara | 108' | France | None
How deep, indescribable traumas of war render real peace and human contact all but impossible in Sri Lanka, after more than 30 years of civil… -
Japón
Carlos Reygadas | 143' | Mexico | None
In the ambitious, stunning debut by Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Post tenebras lux), a man leaves the city to die in a remote, majestic valley.… -
Life on a String
Chen Kaige | 120' | China | None
The world as imagined by two blind musicians. ‘The Holyman’, who is travelling through China with his acolyte Shi Tou, is waiting for a string… -
Mysterious Object at Noon
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 90' | Thailand | None
Various Thais are invited to tell an episodic story. We soon see aliens, flying balls and kidnappings. Funny, intelligent debut by Weerasethakul. -
La nuit
Mohamad Malas | 125' | Syria | None
Quneitra on the Golan Heights was destroyed by Israel during the war with Syria in 1967. The father of Malas, a Palestinian freedom fighter, is… -
On the Beat
Ning Ying | 102' | China | None
Black comedy about the everyday conflict between tradition and progress in a Peking police station. An influx of semi-criminal newcomers from the coun -
A Poet
Garin Nugroho | 90' | Indonesia | None
The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder…